Political Quotes

“There are two other points I want to add. Both the gentlemen have made good points about the need for the IRS reform. It seems to me we need a couple of other areas of reform. We have the problem with IRS in that we do not have a simplified form. There are so many complications to the IRS Tax Code that we do not even have a simplified form that people can use. I do not think that is fair. No. 2, we have a situation where most of our Anglo-American law, the person who is involved in court is presumed to be innocent, whether it is a defendant involved in one court case or another, the Government has the burden of proof and the defendant in a criminal case, my God, is presumed innocent. Here you have a taxpayer, there can be no presumption he did anything wrong, but the current code says they are presumed to be wrong and the IRS Commissioner is presumed to be right. I think this Congress has got to take the bull by the horns and switch that presumption and put the burden back on the Federal Government and not on the taxpayer.”